Top 10 countries worldwide based on number of mobile devices with QR codes 2022
a different source that tried to estimate the number of Apple Pay users worldwide. As user figures are not available for these payment methods, sources revert to modelling whether a payment option is activated on a mobile phone or not.
China had nearly 10 billion mobile devices that used QR codes for payments in 2022, significantly more than any other country in the world. This is according to a model that tried to estimate the number of mobile devices ("handsets") using QR codes for payments across multiple countries in the world. Note that the source does not clarify whether this means the figures provided here refer to the overall number of QR code users within each country. It is likely the numbers shown refer to the number of devices that have QR codes enabled on them, which is a similar methodology used in